Digital Security Association
of India (DiSAI)the fourth
initiative of your monthly e-magazine PreSense organized a seminar on “Digital
Security: Emerging Trends” on Saturday, 5
Jan 2019, at Raman Auditorium, Anna University Campus, Chennai. With the
Data Privacy Act in India expected to be passed any time, this Seminar on Data
Privacy related issues cannot be more appropriately timed.

The event commenced with a
welcome address by Shri V Rajendran,
Chairman DiSAI, who briefly narrating the history of DiSAI and explaining the
importance of this seminar.Hon’ble Justice Thiru T. Raja, Judge Madras
High Court inaugurating the event spoke on the significance of IT laws in India.Delivering the Key Note Address, Shri P. Kandaswamy, IPS, ADGP (Admin),
Chennai took the audience through an array of the most reported cyber crimes
presenting the techno legal issues in
these.Dr. T.V. Gopal proposed vote of thanks, touching upon the key
take-aways from a seminar of this type.

In the first thematic session,
Smt S.P. Lavanya, Addl S.P. CB-CID,
gave a presentation on the investigation issues in cyber crimes and quoted the
statistics published by National Crime Records Bureau.Shri R.
Vittal Raj the well-known Infosec Consultant, presented the regulatory aspects in cyber
crimes in India, emphasizing the significance of various RBI inititatives.Shri P.
Logesh Babu from Asian Law College, Chennai gave an interesting
presentation on the Anatomy of a Cyber Crime.

The first session post-lunch, was
a panel discussion chaired by Shri S.
Nagaragan, Gen Secy, All India Bank
Officers’ Association in which panelists representing the information security
industry, academia and digital forensics presented their respective
perspectives explaining their contribution in the area of creating awareness on
cyber crimes and underlining the role played by digital forensics, information
security policy etc in the domain of data privacy.There was a live demo of ethical hacking
explaining to the audience how a mobile hand-set could be hacked and the data
stolen.After the panel discussion, Dr R. Bascarane from Puduherry Police gave
a very lively and thought-provoking lecture on the practical and social aspects
of data privacy in India.

The valedictory session commenced
at 4 PM with the welcome address by Shri U.P.
Prakasham, Vice President of DiSAI.Hon’ble Thiru Dr. J. Jayavardhan,Member of
Parliament, South Chennai Lok Sabha constituency presented a national view
on data privacy and cyber crimes and enlightened the audience on the
significant steps taken by the government and proposed to be taken, especially
relying on his role as a member of Parliamentary Committee on I.T.

Shri R.
Bhagwan Singh, Executive Editor, Deccan Chronicle briefly presented the
journey of digitalization in India, travelling down the memory lane from the
days of reporting a news item through telegram or fax, to the present day of
instant reporting through WhatsApp type of social networking sites.Shri
Ramesh Sethuraman, proposed vote of thanks involving the audience in an
interactive session.

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About DiSAI

Digital Security Association of India (DiSAI) is a non-profit Public Trust and NGO (Non-Government Organisation), with Trustees on its board, holding expertise in technology and the academic field. This is the fourth initiative of eMagazine PreSense.

V. Rajendran, Editor of PreSense, is the Founder and Chairman of DiSAI. Prof. Dr R. Jagannathan, Editorial Advisor of PreSense, and former Vice-Chancellor of the Middle East University, UAE and the American Medical University, West Indies, is the President of the new initiative.

Presently, the world is talking about Computer Security, Network Security, Internet Security, System Security, Information security and Cyber Security. With technology penetration in all walks of life, impacting human life globally, safety and security of data in communication including the other aspects associated with life namely, ethical security, societal security, and legal security assume greater significance. DiSAI will embark on a new journey in this direction focussing in this niche area of digital security, involving all the stake holders in the area.

Those interested in getting associated with the initiative, irrespective of their location, may email to Shri V Rajendran, Chairman, DiSAI at info@disai.in or disai.india@gmail.com.